VIDEO: Teen taking selfie next to train gets kicked in head

VIDEO: Teen taking selfie next to train gets kicked in head

(WTVR) — It is a selfie that one teen will likely never forget after he received a swift boot to the head when a train passed by.

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The brief video begins with Jared Michael standing next to a train track as a train approaches. Within seconds the train begins to race by and in a blur you see the legs of a person standing on an outside platform of the train’s engine stick out a black boot and kick Jared in the side of the head.

The entire clip, which Jared posted the video on Youtube Tuesday, is over in 10 seconds. By Wednesaday afternoon the video had amassed over 300,000 views.

“I tried to take a selfie while a train passed a ‘safe’ distance behind,” wrote Jared in the YouTube caption. “I guess I was still too close and got kicked in the head. I messed up.”